signed money

[Vanity Plate Bob]

Is anyone familiar with the signed money by military personnel during WW II in Iwo Jima and that area? Possibly other areas also. I'm searching for the name of said money.
Was it possibly called "Shorter"? Can U shed light on the subject?
Thanks,
VP Bob

[THORIN]

I've been reading stuff on WWII since I was a kid. I've never heard of such a thing. I will be interested in hearin what it is.

[Chrisr]

I vaguely remember reading or hearing something about this. I have a bunch of friends that are into WWII stuff. I'll ask them and see if they know anything.

[Vanity Plate Bob]

After more searching I discovered it was called Short Snorter.
Several sites cover the subject.

ck military Short Snorter
or military money Short Snorter

[DRTH VTR]

A SHORT SNORTER

A "Short Snorter" is a chain of foreign paper currency taped together end to end. The longer your "short snorter" the more countries you had visited.


Also,

Q: What is a Short Snorter? Or, I have a 1935 series Silver Certificate with several signatures on it.
A: The following is what I've pieced together from several conversations. Typically, during WWII, servicemen out for a drink would have their buddies sign each others notes. At a later date, when they got together, if the other guy didn't have his note, or whoever had the note with the least amount of signatures had to buy the next round of drinks.

[Vanity Plate Bob]

gotcha....

[navy2kcoupe]

Bob, we were told that we were not supposed to take "greenbacks" with us to Vietnam, but I carried 2 one dollar bills with me and had guys that I served with sign either the front of one or the back of the other. Still have the bills, and get some REALLY neat comments when I find someone who signed one of them and e-mail him a picture of it! I did it just for the "memory" aspect of it.
Andy (living in MA, but formerly from Greensburg, PA)

[Vanity Plate Bob]

A member of the coin club has one. Don't recall the looks of it as I only saw it for 30 seconds.
I'll have to get another look and maybe a scan.
Not sure if he was over there. Think he is probably 70, or more, years old.

[wishuwerehere82]

When a civilian aviator by the name of Jack Ashcroft went out for a night on the town, he couldn’t have imagined that this would inspire him to start one of America’s quirkiest traditions.
Legend has it that Jack, a heavy drinker, went AWOL from the Gates Flying Circus where he worked. Upon his return he calmed his irate boss by coaxing him into handing over two dollar bills.
On one bill he wrote “Short Snorter No 1, Pangborn (the name of his employer), Aug 1925.” He handed this back and pocketed the other dollar. And so was born the first Short Snorter.

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/502_famoussnorters.html